Window-screen.



A. TALBOT.

WINDOW SCREEN.

APPLICATION FILED snr'r. a, 1912.

Patented Feb. 25, 1913.

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UNITED STA'IJEE PATENT OFFICE.

ALFRED TALBOT, OF RUIBICON, MICHIGAN.

WINDOW-SCREEN.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED TALBOT, citi' zen of the United States, residing at Rubicon, in the county of Ontonagon and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in \Vindow-Screens, of which the following is a specification.

This invent-ion relates to improvements in window screens, and has for one of its objects to provide a simply constructed device which may be readily adapted without material structural change to windows of various sizes and which' may be folded into small space for transportation or storage when not in use.

Another object of the invention is to provide a simply constructed device of this character which may be applied to a window without interfering with the sash, curtains, hangings, or the like.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction as hereafter shown and described and specifically pointed out in the claims, and in the drawings illustrative of the preferred embodiment of the invention, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a portion of a window including a part of the lower sash, with the improvement applied. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the improved device detached and in extended position. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the improved device folded or collapsed.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the same reference characters.

The improved device comprises an upper longitudinal member 10, a lower longitudinal member 11, and end members 1213. The end member 12 is hingedly united at 14 to one of the longitudinal members, for instance the member 11, while the end member 13 is hingedly united at 15 to one of the longitudinal members, for instance the same longitudinal member 11, as shown. The hinges 1e-15 are applied to the inner edges of the end members so that they fold inwardly upon the member 11 and are thereby limited in their outward movement by the contact of the ends of the members 1213 with the inner faces of the member 11. By this means the members 12-13 cannot be moved beyond a position at right angles to the member 11.

A sheet of mosquito netting represented Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed September 3, 1912.

Patented Feb. 25,1913.

Serial No. 718,319.

as a whole at 16 is connected at its side edges respectively to the members 10-11 and extended at the ends beyond the longitudinal members as represented at 17-18. The width of the sheet of mosquito netting is such that when the end members 12-13 are in position and presented against the end member 10 a sufficient strain will be applied to the netting material to maintain the same in stretched condition and when thus disposed the extended portions 1718 of the screen material can be folded around the end members 12-14.

The longitudinal members 1011 correspond in length to the distance between the inner confronting faces of the window frame, which is represented as a whole at 19, and when the device is to be applied the lower frame member 11 is located upon the window sill and between the side members of the frame 19 and preferably within the run ways of the lower sash, the latter being represented conventionally at 20. The longitudinal frame member 10 is then elevated and the end members 12-13 moved upwardly and outwardly into position as shown in Fig. 1, this movement applying the strain to the screen material. Before the end members are moved fully into position the projecting portions 1718 of the screen material is turned at. right angles to the longitudinal members and against the inner face of the frame '19 and then when the end members are moved into their upward outwardly position they bear against the portion 17-18 of the screen material and hold it against the window frame. The sash 20 is then lowered until it engages with the upper longitudinal member 10. By this means the screen frame is firmly held in position and closes the space between the sash and the sill.

The improved device is simple in construction, can be inexpensively manufactured of suitable material and any suitable size adapted to the window in which it is to be located.

The members of the frame may be of any suitable material, but will generally be of wood as light as possible consistent with the strains to which they will be subjected.

Having thus described the invention I desire to claim as follows:

1. A screen frame comprising co-acting longitudinal members, screen material connected to said longitudinal members, and coactlng end members swmgmgly connected at one end to one of said longitudinal members and adapted to bear at the unconnected ends against the other longitudinal member and operating to maintain the longitudinal members spaced apart and the screen mater-ial under strain.

2. A screen frame comprising co-acting longitudinal members, screen material connected to said longitudinal members and extending at their ends beyond the same, and co-acting end members extending between said longitudinal members and maintaining the same in spaced relation and imparting strain to the screen material, the extending portions of the screen material being adapt- 15 ed for engaging around the end members of the frame. i

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of tWo Witnesses.

CLIFFORD OUELLETTE; LEOPOLDINE RoUssEAU.

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Washington, D. 

